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Richmond lifts boil-water advisory after 2 days
The Virginia Department of Health has lifted Richmond's boil-water advisory in place over the past two days.
State report calls Richmond water crisis ‘completely avoidable’
The January Richmond water crisis that left hundreds of thousands of residents without water for close to a week, forcing restaurants and other businesses to temporarily close or limit service, was “completely avoidable,” a final report from Virginia Department of Health has determined. In his release of the report late Wednesday, Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued […]
VDH funds $5 million for new COVID-19 testing centers
As COVID infection rates reach record numbers from the omicron variant, the Virginia Department of Health will open nine new COVID-19 community testing centers across the state to increase testing availability, Gov. Ralph Northam’s office announced Thursday. The centers will offer polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, considered the most reliable type of COVID-19 test. The […]
VDH officials expect more workplaces to mandate vaccines
More workplaces will likely require employees to be vaccinated once the Food and Drug Administration provides full licensure of the Pfizer vaccine, expected in September, Dr. Danny Avula, the state’s vaccine coordinator, said Tuesday at a Virginia Department of Health media briefing. “COVID is not going to go away after this delta variant,” Avula said, […]
Northam directs $22M to future COVID vaccine program
While COVID-19 vaccines have yet to be approved in the United States, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Friday that the state government has earmarked $22 million in federal CARES Act to establish a statewide program to distribute vaccines once they’re ready. The commonwealth submitted its draft vaccination plan to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]
